Voices of Deliverance Critical Reaction
- ” Smith interviews the writers not only as a professor of literature and as an editor, but as a reader and lover of books. “
(Atlantic Provinces Book Review, Halifax) - ” The interviews are superbly organized, clearly dovetailed with biographical material and brief summaries. These are fascinating portraits. This book is a must for any library. It conveys a sense of the world of Québec letters and its diverse voices. “
(Canadian Materials) - ” Smith brings together a totality, a Québécois weltanschaung. The book is a live, verbal register of public and private aspirations unfurling and cultural, social and political settings of Québec through its symbols. “
(The Ottawa Citizen) - ” This is lively stuff. The sort of things that leaves footprints in the mind. A valuable book. “
(The Toronto Star) - “Donald Smith has compiled an extraordinary series of interviews with Quebec and Acadian writers. Smith’s questions and the writers’ answers, smoothly and unobtrusively translated from the French by Larry Shouldice, deal with matters of language, politics, religion, social issues and, most important, the actual creative process as seen and felt by each author. Voices of Deliverance is a fascinating glimpse into the lives and thoughts of the cream of Quebec and Acadian writers. Donald Smith’s vast knowledge of his subjects and their works and his obvious intellectual curiosity enable him to produce a captivating and complete work. This is an essential documentary about some of the many great writers in French Canada.”
(Julie Rekai Rickerd, Canadian Book Review Annual, 1986).